You won't learn anything very new from this video about the widely advertised sins of Jeffrey Epstein. But you may feel rather less tempted to envy his superficial Playboy life, when you realise quite how much he was hated and despised.
Epstein wanted money and sex, and he certainly got what he wanted. It's what a sex-starved schoolboy thinks he wants, simply because he hasn't got it. A private island "where I can think my own thoughts" and three underage girls a day, served-up on the dot, like room service ("Younger the better"). We don't know how much he genuinely relished all these one-way relationships. But going bull-headed for sex does not generally yield the magic. As for the money, he certainly got a kick out of trafficking the girls to highly-placed individuals, from whom he could later expect favours. But he may have been flying too close to the sun. When he was discovered dead in his jail-cell, we were reminded of the mystic link between mating and death.
We can feel deep disgust at the grooming of the girls, mainly by the reassuring authority-figure of Ghislaine Maxwell, who often joined in the skylarking. But their victim-status needs to be kept in proportion. It seems that some of them did not need much pressuring to cross the line into the world of the rich and corrupt at play. (One of them, whom I won't name, looks a decidedly cynical type, even in her underage snapshot.) On that point, there is one discrepancy. The episode about Palm Beach describes the girls as daughters of rich bankers and brokers. But they are also classified as 'deprived', as though we're talking about third-world sex-tourism. They can't be both.
Epstein wanted money and sex, and he certainly got what he wanted. It's what a sex-starved schoolboy thinks he wants, simply because he hasn't got it. A private island "where I can think my own thoughts" and three underage girls a day, served-up on the dot, like room service ("Younger the better"). We don't know how much he genuinely relished all these one-way relationships. But going bull-headed for sex does not generally yield the magic. As for the money, he certainly got a kick out of trafficking the girls to highly-placed individuals, from whom he could later expect favours. But he may have been flying too close to the sun. When he was discovered dead in his jail-cell, we were reminded of the mystic link between mating and death.
We can feel deep disgust at the grooming of the girls, mainly by the reassuring authority-figure of Ghislaine Maxwell, who often joined in the skylarking. But their victim-status needs to be kept in proportion. It seems that some of them did not need much pressuring to cross the line into the world of the rich and corrupt at play. (One of them, whom I won't name, looks a decidedly cynical type, even in her underage snapshot.) On that point, there is one discrepancy. The episode about Palm Beach describes the girls as daughters of rich bankers and brokers. But they are also classified as 'deprived', as though we're talking about third-world sex-tourism. They can't be both.